Before deleting it mere hours later, Neil Young, the Canadian rock icon, released the entirety of a previously-unreleased 1991 concert with Crazy Horse, his longtime backing band, on Tuesday.
The unedited footage surfaced on the Neil Young Archives website (NYA) on the morning of April 7, along with a short message from the 74-year-old artist.
“This is raw, untouched sound,” he wrote.
“We normally would have fixed some things, and we will get to it, but we are sharing this with all of you just as it is ‘in all its Ragged Glory,’” Young added, referencing his own 1990 album.
The show was recorded at the Buffalo’s War Memorial on Feb. 16, 1991 during the critically acclaimed ‘Smell the Horse’ tour, which promoted Ragged Glory — the sixth overall Young/Crazy Horse record.
Following in the footsteps of his recent “Fireside Sessions” — which have been recorded by Young’s wife, actress Daryl Hannah — the Crazy Horse gig seemingly came as a gift to fans during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
“We can’t get into the archive vault to retrieve the master for a remix,” wrote Young, referring to the novel coronavirus, “but it’s debatable whether one is needed at this moment,” he added.
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